Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 2 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 3 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 4 | Elected people will no longer have an influence on local further education ; instead , the position will be similar to that set up by the Secretary of State for Health , where appointed quangos are in control . |
| 5 | Canals did not create new towns ; those built up by the railway companies , such as Swindon , Crewe or Eastleigh , being concerned with the building of locomotives and rolling stock , had no parallel . |
| 6 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 7 | The key factor for Freud is the prohibition on sexual desire , first set up by the father in the primal horde . |
| 8 | The two clubs are the first set up by the recreation support unit of Darlington Borough Council . |